Example sentences of "she [was/were] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mainly there was silence , in still greenish light , as if she were at the bottom of a pool . |
| 2 | Her voice had a lilt to it as if she were on the verge of laughter . |
| 3 | For a moment she wished she were on the top floor of a very , very high skyscraper . |
| 4 | She 's knocking on , she were on the other day |
| 5 | She herself felt curiously unreal , as though she were in the midst of a dream . |
| 6 | word clear and comprehensible as if she were in the front row of the stalls . |
| 7 | If Bernard was busy with flying lessons then she could be left in peace to get on with her work ; once he was back , if he wanted her to go somewhere with him , he would just say ‘ Come on Laura , we 're going , ’ and even if she were in the middle of a meeting , she would put away what she was doing and go . |
| 8 | She felt as if she were in the middle of a minefield . |
| 9 | She could n't bear this any longer , this toing and froing of his emotions , tossing her around as if she were in the eye of a tornado . |
| 10 | and explain the situation and the court said oh well we 'll take it to the magistrate 's then , then he had a letter two weeks later saying that it 's been thrown out again , they have n't got a case cos she were in the wrong , she 's never , ever have gone |
| 11 | The whole bar was up on its feet to watch even before she had finished laying down the opening phrases ; by the time she was into the full fury of the aria , with its demanding coloratura decorations , its elaborate breathing technique and its famous placing of the pauses , we were all applauding and whistling . |
| 12 | When she reached the summit , she was into the full brunt of the gale-force wind . |
| 13 | She was into the pyjamas . |
| 14 | Gazing down , Luke thought how beautiful she was despite the tear-stains and the swollen eyelids . |
| 15 | ‘ … poor , almost illiterate … her pride was that she was of the Clanranald . |
| 16 | Fergus had divined how afraid she was of the doll-mask and had dealt with it in his own way , daring her to let it all hang out , quoting Yeats at her in his Irish voice . |
| 17 | Stephanie did not like cut glass : she was of the generation that discovered the plain , the functional , the Finnish , Dartington . |
| 18 | She was of the opinion there was more to the girl than might reasonably be expected . |
| 19 | She had never been so aware of anyone as she was of the powerful man who had entered her life so abruptly . |
| 20 | She was unbearably aware of the tensile strength of his incipient beard beneath the shaven smoothness of his jaw , just as she was of the aroused hardness of his body , controlled , contained but testifying to his rampant masculinity in a way that was driving her to abandon the last remaining threads of self-control . |
| 21 | She gave me the names of all her friends and said how proud she was of the life her father had given her . |
| 22 | Far from being tempted to explain anything then , she was of the view that she 'd see him in hell first . |
| 23 | Fond though she was of the other girl , she could n't take much more of this . |
| 24 | Once she 'd received her recall from Lord C , she was aboard the next trans-Atlantic seaplane from New York to Lisbon . |
| 25 | The catamaran shook its bows against the swell , then she was through the wind and on to the other tack with the sails drawing sweetly . |
| 26 | That morning they parted under the trees , he never took her all the way to the gates , that would only have made things worse , that morning she looked the way she always looked , rings under her eyes and her whole body braced for the ordeal that lay ahead , how hard it was to leave her always , maybe that was why they always drew the parting out , sometimes it took minutes , just the saying goodbye , they backed away from each other , then stopped and called something out , then backed away again , they called out special words that they 'd made up , words to fill the distance between them , words for the things they could n't say , they backed away till he was under the trees or she was through the gates , whichever happened first , she looked the same way she always looked that morning , except for one thing , she had a clock tucked under her arm , the clock they 'd found together , the clock that did n't tick , the lonely clock . |
| 27 | Remorse and pain clutched at her , almost taking her breath away , and Jenna spun round and took to her heels , taking Alain by surprise so that she was through the door and down the stairs before he caught her . |
| 28 | She was through the door and out into the courtyard within seconds but Ana had already gone and all Maggie could do was follow . |
| 29 | He plunged back into his work , forgetting about her before she was through the door . |
| 30 | She played those games — anything to keep the girls children as long as possible and not face up to the fact that she was over the hill . |